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In September 2017 I visited the Mauthausen Memorial (former Mauthausen Concentration Camp) near Linz, Austria.
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- Maxim Chornyi
Nov 2, 2022 · Thousands of prisoners were beaten to death, shot, murdered by lethal injection, or frozen to death. At least 10,200 inmates were murdered in the gas chamber at the main camp, in Gusen, or at ...
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- Wanderer Bell
Mauthausen concentration camps liberation forced labor. Explore photographs showing the Mauthausen camp, personnel, and conditions. An estimated 197,464 prisoners passed through the Mauthausen concentration camp system between August 1938 and May 1945. At least 95,000 people were killed there.
- Images of Suffering and Cruelty at Mauthausen
- From A Flour Sack to A Climate-Controlled Museum
- The Political Prisoners' Dangerous Mission
- Family May Never Know All The Album's Secrets
The album began with images of stone buildings, Austrian countryside, visiting dignitaries and Nazis in uniform. As it progressed, the photos became more disturbing. They showed images of dead bodies piled up, children in freezing conditions behind barbed wire, a man, dead in the snow wearing only a thin camp uniform with no shoes. The album had be...
Ana Ivanovic, Ms Ciufo's aunt, didn't want to keep the gruesome album her husband had left behind, so it stayed in a calico flour sack inside a cupboard in a family member's NSW home. "Every now and then I'd ask if I could have a look, but then we forgot about it for many years," Ms Ciufo says. After a death in the family, the album in the flour sa...
The photo album is a remarkable testimony to the bravery of a handful of cunning prisoners who worked in the camp's photographic lab. The Nazis had directed prisoners to make five copies of the album, to send to various generals so they could be used to oil the Nazi propaganda machine. A sixth, clandestine copy was made by the prisoners and smuggle...
Ms Ciufo never met her uncle, but remembers family members speaking fondly of the amateur painter. Despite the hardship he endured, he was a playful man, known by the nickname "Bobo". Born in Zagreb, he survived terrible treatment by the Nazis, including medical experimentation while he was in Mauthausen. His family may never know how he came to ow...
- Alice Moldovan
A brief tour of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial in Austria. Walking through this place gives a feeling of being in a complete spiritual and human...
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- Joe and Robin Collins
Where Murder Was a Way of Life: The Mauthausen Concentration Camp. Mauthausen, one of the worst of the Nazi concentration camps, was liberated by the American 11th Armored Division on May 5, 1945. Above image: Former prisoners greeting American forces in Mauthausen in May 1945.
Mauthausen was a German Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany. [2][3] The three Gusen concentration camps in and around the village of St ...
